Book News: Tom Wolfe’s Next Book, Mysterious Sculptress

The best-selling political thriller writer Vince Flynn, author of the Mitch Rapp series, died yesterday, at the age of forty-seven.

Tom Wolfe is writing a book called “The Kingdom of Speech” about how language distinguishes human beings from animals. (His 2006 lecture “The Human Beast” covered similar territory.)

The dyslexic author Sally Gardner won the Carnegie Medal, the U.K.’s most prestigious children’s-book award, for her novel “Maggot Moon.” In her acceptance speech, she claimed that the current education system would dismiss her as “thick, uneducable, and other words that wouldn’t be considered P.C. to use today.”

An anonymous sculptress in Scotland has been depositing paper sculptures at libraries and other literary locations, most recently a nest-themed one at Leith Library, in Edinburgh.